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We present evidence for the motherhood wage penalty in Spain as a representative Southern European Mediterranean … three or more, more than 15%. -- Fixed-effects estimation ; motherhood wage penalty ; Spain …
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dominance techniques. The field of study is of particular interest because wage determination in Spain incorporates an important … territorial component, facilitated by certain specific institutional elements, given that Spain is one of the few developed …. Consequently, the infrequent regional dimension of collective bargaining on an industry level implies the presence in Spain of wage …
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and productivity developments in Germany, the European Union's periphery countries Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain … growth, also in the low inflationary period of the 2000s. Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain are far from aligning wage …
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countries and regions belonging to it. The paper addresses this issue empirically and analyses real wage flexibility in Spain … rigidity in Spain, because national and regional wage setting are closely linked. However, semiparametric estimation allows us …
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Variable Pay Systems or Pay for performance suppose variable additional components to regular wages connected, for example, with the evolution of the firm objectives or with the evolution of the individual features and productivity. These forms of variable remuneration have had a growing...
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This paper analyses wage inequality in Spain from 1995 to 2002. Inequality has decreased slightly in this period …
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We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the outcomes of other children but also the very existence of...
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We analyze how quits responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages using an unusual feature of a pay raise at a large U.S. retailer. The firm's use of discrete pay steps created discontinuities in raises, where workers earning within 1 cent of each other received new wages that...
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We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four sub-intervals spanning the period from 1985 to 2009. We show that these models provide a good...
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Europe’s labor is not competitiveness taking unemployment as the relevant indicator. The paper looks at other indicators such as job creation, productivity and unit labor costs and skills. It analyzes the reasons for the lack of competitiveness including a low degree of wage differentiation,...
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